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Chicago examiner vol xi no 238 a ivl thursday Chicago september 25 1913 thursday registered in u s pttent office price one cent sffisf&^3ffi edison pool wins control secretly of peoples gas three electric corporation di rectors will be named on board of former rival in chi cago lighting and fuel field samuel insull gives out state ment denying merger but john j mitchell admits the consolidation of two boards control of the peoples gas light & coke company is destined to pass to the commonwealth edison company as a re sult of the negotiations now being con cluded in new yoru with the heirs of anthony n brady and d o mills at a special meeting of the peoples gas company three members of the cominon wealtb edison company will be elected to fill the places rrobably of the late anthony n brady walton ferguson and e q cowdery jehu j mitchell president of the illi nois trust ic saving bank samuel insull president of the commonwealth edison company md james a patten a silent member in the bartlett-frazier company will be the choke of the insull party at the election mr mitchell admits the possibility of this action at an early date uet salle street and wall street feel assured that the control of the peoples gas light & coke company has passed into the hands of the insull pool which began buying the shares over a year ago around 103 and continued its absorption of the issue up to 113 when monetae congestion and a steadily rising rate of discount placed a quietus jjpoijjje ojk orations when money ran up to 0 per cent and then became unavailable below 7 per cent the insull bankers called a halt rer.ew buying movement recently however the pool's brokers became active again buying the gas stock last june around 104 and taking it over on a scale even up to tuesday when sales were made on the Chicago stock exchange at 130 and on the new york stock exchange at 129.75 both high record levels ln the history of the company kussell brewster & co a l baker & co and babcock kushton & co have been the most prominently identified ou the buying side of the mar ket fiuley barrell & co and clement curtis & co also absorb3d a fair amount of stock recently while the selling was widely scattered until yesterday when the pool began to sell through its brokers with a view to checking the advance and freezing out trailers in new york ost & flagg were the pronounced sellers of gas stock yester day but the market held steadily iu spite of the flood of selling orders which led to the conclusion that most of them were matched with buying orders placed through other brokerage houses samuel insull and john j mitchell were insistent yesterday that the absorption of the peoples gas light & coke company by the commonwealth edison company was not in contempla-on insull in careful statement in new york mr insull issued a care fully worded interview in which he said there was no justification for the state ment that a merger of the two companies was contemplated he did not say how ever that the control of the gas com pany would not pass into the hands of the commonwealth edison people the organization of a massachusetts volun tary association mr insull did not deny extra bystander killed in fight between thugs and police william lorimer agent for snuff concern victim of bullet deflected by pole william lorimer 606 blackhawk street representative of the copenhagen snuff company was shot and instantly killed shortly before 3 o'clock this morning by policeman william al'.en of the hudson avenue police station during a running revolver battle with three highwaymen the fatality occurred while allen was chasing the highwaymen who hud held up and robbed adolph heimbroch 1219 otis street lorimer a bystander was in front of his office at 1440 larrabee street talking to several acquaintances one of the bullets fired at the fleeing highwaymen by the policeman struck an iron telephone post near which lorimer was standing the deflected bullet en tered his right temple lorimer wus carried to the undertaking rooms of charles burmeister & son at 1424 larrabee street he died before a physician arrived policeman allen the possessor of sev eral marksmanship medals saw the high waymen stop heimbroch at division and larrabee streets when he ran to his assistance the highwaymen fled ln larra bee street running past lorimer and his friends one of the robbers was captured at north avenue and larra'bee street by policeman frank gloy he gave his name as fred gandolinl 1157 townsend street at the hudson avenue station he was identified by heimbroch and allen plot expose near in steel trust inquiry concern to reveal facts said to be similar to u p blackmailing by b c forbes new york sert 24 1 hear that a bombshell is going to be exploded soon ly the united states steel corporation and that the reputations of certain very prominent washington men will be shat tered judge gary would not discuss it to-day he has all along taken the view as his corporation ia under prosecution his lips are sealed the disclosures it is believed will be on lines similar to those made recently in connection with the attempted black mailing of union pacific interests except that the persons implicated are of much higher stai-iing the togas of one or two statesmen it is said will be smirched jane addams in auto crashes into bank pittsburgh pa sept 24 jane addams who is here attending a socio logical conference is recovering from fright and shock of au automobile acci dent the car ln which miss addams and several friends were riding blew a tire and crashed into a hlgj bank no one was injured seriously vassar girls must eat no more butter poughkeepsie n y sept 24 butter is unhealthy cotton mattresses are unhealthy such is the finding of the investigation board at . assar college and accordingly the two articles have been banished from the college girl jailed in bank on bogus check charge expensive silks and lace and four check books revealed in search of hotel room claims to be an actress telegram from st louis says husband has been con victed of forgery a pretty yottng woman a guest at the palmer house was arrested yesterday while trying to pass a worthless check at the continental & commercial trust & savings bank a search of her room i by hugh mccaffrey superintendent of the plnkerton national detective agency revealed four check books with several checks filled out and ready to use ' she was captured because of ber re semblance to the woman who passed a check for 65 on the bank beveral days ago when she presented a check for 85 yesterday assistant cashier harry w jones called the bank detective forgery told in telfegram at the police station where she was booked on two charges of working a con fidence game she said that she is miss jesse wilcox of denver and her name so appears on the blotter but when she was taken to the palmer house for a search of her room a telegram was hand ed her which betrayed her the mes sage was from a lawyer in st louis and said that her husband had been con victed of forgery she then admitted that she is married and said that she came to Chicago to raise money for her husband's lawyer the check which was passed at the bank some days ago supposedly by the prisoner was made out ln favor of mrs r c cooper the one which she tried to pass yesterday was in favor of mrs l e rose claimed to be actress when first questioned san said that sbe is an actress and lives in omaha further questioning brought the name of miss jessie wilcox of denver but the police are sure this name is fictitious a search of the trunk in her room at the palmer house revealed expensive clothing of silk and lace but nothing in dicative of an illegal career except the check books and the hled-in checks boy 3 and girl 4 elope for whole day police find baby couple blissfully eating gift candy the police were called out to arrest a pair of elopers yesterday norton man ski 5760 indiana avenue and miss pris cil'a josephs same address disappeared in the morning and were not found until 5 o'clock in the afternoon they were found at a garage at fifty first street and michigan avenue and taken home norton is three and priscilla i four years old they had left home without a cent but had visited at least twenty candy stores and were given cakes und candy at each when found they were sitting in the garage doorway blissfully eating their supplies of sweets queen and princess out over suffrage mary won't receive patricia's franchise seeking maid special cable to the examiner london sept 24 queen mary bas again caused friction in the royal house bold by ber opposition to women's suf frage before ber visit to altborp as the gnest of lord and lady spencer queen mary learned tbat princess patri cia of counaught was also to be a guest there and the queen informed princess patricia that miss glenteil a prominent suffragist and recently appointed lady in waiting to the princess would not be acceptable to her princess patricia promptly refused to go without her friend and sent her regrets tornado in kansas snow in nebraska high wind tears down houses in its path at eureka eureka kan sept 24 a tornado passed through eureka this evening striking the residence and main part of the business district the hotel green wood and first national bank are badly damaged nearly every house in its path was unroofed many were torn down omaha neb sept 24 a snowstorm is raging in western nebraska to-night all western nebraska and eastern wyo ming ls covered with sleet and snow the rest of the state ls being soaked by the heaviest rain of the year the ground trill be prime for winter wheat assails mackay estates transfer is held illegal love suit charge denied mrs blake declares title was given trustee after service in alienation action new york sept 24 george gordon battle counsel for mrs catherine ketch am blake wife of dr joseph a blake to-night confirmed the report tbat mrs blake had taken the initial steps in a suit against mrs clarence h mackey for 1,000,000 for the alienation of dr blake's affections summons and complaint in the actiou were accepted on february 17 last by arthur c train as attorney for mrs mackay before the expiration of the required days mr train on behalf of mrs mackay filed his answer which according to mr battle was a general de nial of the charges contained in the com plaint two days after mr train had accepted service for his client mr battle said a deed was filed at mineola l 1 in the office of the clerk of nassau county in j which clarence h mackey and his wife catherine duer mackay transferred to i clarence h mackay and w w cook as | trustees harbor hill the 5,000,000 j mackay estate at ltossyln l 1 this ! transfer in the op.uion of mr battle is i illegal and will be contested ! court record kept secret mr battle admited that au agreement ] had been reached by opposing counsel not i to make any court record of the service on mrs mackay in the alienation suit i when ready to place the actual suit on file mr battle said permissiou would be 'â– obtaiued from a supreme court justice in the complaint served upon mr ! train according to mr battle there i were no charges of misconduct on the ' part of dr blake and mrs mackny ! alienation of the affections of mrs j blake's husband was the only allegation i set forth in the complaint mr battle said the papers in the suit ! would be filed in the office of the county j clerk within a few weeks or as soon as i the fall term of the supreme court con venes he also admitted that mrs blake j is contemplating the filing of a suit for , separation but that it would not be | necessary to await the outcome of the j alienation suit before taking sucn a i course he said that mrÃŸ blake tial sufficient evidence to proceed in the ae j tion for separation without depending ou the aame evidence which will be lutro | duced ln the alienation suit mrs mackay's name wiu not figure in the snit for separation if such a suit is finally brought said mr cattle frjends of dr and mrs blake have been endeavoring for some time to bring about a reconciliation but it is said thut 11 hope in this direction has practically been abandoned husband in europe clarence h mackay bas been iu europe with his three cuildreu for three months he is now supposed to be at his shoot ing lodge in scotland his departure from new york on board the imperator on june 25 last under the name of ar mour caused a decided sensation in new york society following the departure of mr mackay and his three children katherine fourteen ellen ten and john william six mrs mackay admitted that ber husband had not taken her into bis confidence hnrdly had mr mackay reached europe when the announcement came from port land me that mrs mackay had leased for three years the home of former may or i.eighton of portland she took up her resideuce in portland on july 24 last and this led to reports that she was con templating an action for separation or i divorce she however denied that she i had any such intention harbor hill the mackay estate at ros yn l 1 over which mr battle declares there wiji be a legal battle is one of the most magnificent country places on j long island through the transler of | the property last february it was prac i tically placed in entail by the terms j of the trust deed mrs mackuy relin quishes her dower rights which will go by the english system of primogeniture to the only son john w mackay now six years old so far is is known the only time mr mackay and bis wife saw each other after the filing of the deed was in the latter part of june when mrs mackay visited her husband and the children at spring lake jj j and dined with them mr mackay motored with mrs mackay to the railroad station that even ing and she returned to new york sev eral days later mr mackay and the chil dren saile'i for europe dr joseph a blake who is ten years older than mr mackay lg one of the most noted surgeons in the country since the death of dr bull he has been con sidered the most eminent surgeon in new york mrs clarence mackay and the children who were taken by her millionaire husband to europe just after the initial step in the 1,000,000 suit against mrs mackay for alienating the affections of dr j a blake u.s report blames 21 deaths on new haven directors masters of finance held respon sible for westport wreck by commissioner mcchord inves tigating for commerce board lack of discipline and safe operating rules and failure of board to act when disasters became frequent the causes washington sept 24 the inter state commerce commission to-day made public its report on the new york new hivcn & hartford railroad wreck near north haven conn on september 2 the wreck cost the lives of twenty-oue pas sengers and injured thirty-Â£ve the re port says the directors of the new haven ma gicians in the art of finance and wizards in the consolidation of great systems ot railroads were responsible for the wreck they should turn from the financial questions in which the road is involved and for a time at least give the benefit of their consideration and judgment to the question of safety it is not to be wondered at that the accident occurred it is rcmarknb'e tfl that accidents of this character have not occurred on the line with greater fre quency as a result of its investigation the in terstate commerce commission will rec ommend to congress in its coming report laws making railroad directors criminally responsible for neglect of duty the report was written by commission er mcchord he complains that con gress has not given the interstate com merce commission the power to enforce its recommendations and he urges con gress to exercise its full authority u s power to act the report makes these points in addi tion to those listed before the government has the power to com pel the safeguarding of traffic over this line if the railroad will not do it the direct cause of the wreck was the failure of the train crews to obey the rules the rules are ineffective the officials made no effort to enforce the rules the discipline on the road is weak the signals are antiquated the man failure begins higher up the operating officials cannot evade re sponsibilities for infractions of the rules in thirty-two mouths the new haven bad 156 cases of euglnemen disregarding danger signals and 101 cases of improper flagging attention is called to the delay by the directors in taking steps to end the dis asters the directors do not seem to have acted upon the subject until october it 1912 which was after the westport wreck which followed that at bridge port on july 1 1911 order president to inquire they then ordered the president of the road to investigate the competency of the locomotive engineers and proposed to improve the safety of passenger travel the directors assumed to dispose of their responsibility on this subject by a vote depositing it in bulk upon the pres ident it is not necessary here to attempt to , outline the technical rule of law govern ing the obligation of directors as usteos | of the corporation for the aggregate body of their stocklio'ders and for the pub lic suffice it to say that there can he little doubt that this legal obligation is more stroug that seems to be the gencr , ally accepted bejief of men of large for , tune who occupy mauy positions of this character the rule is that where a corporation , is handling agencies dangerous to life its directors are required to exercise such reasonable supervision over the manage ment of their company's business as will result in the observance of the utmost care on the part of the subordinates directors by law are not mere figure beads iior arc their duties confined to the more direction of the finances of a corporation their duties are such that 1 1 mere delegation of them if such they nre ' not in fact performed does not satisfy - the legal obligation unless there bas , been ordinary business eare aad diligence in supervision _________ here are the financiers blamed for rail horror washington sept 24 here are the men magicians in the art of finance and wizards in con struction operation and consoli dation of great returns of rail roads held responsible by the interstate commerce commission for the new haven road wreck that cost twenty-one lives william rockefeller now york n y j pierpont morgan new york n y george mag culloch mil ler new york n y lewis cass ledyard new york n y charles m pratt new york n y george f baker new york n y alexander cochrane bos ton mass charles f brooker anso nia conn charles s mellen new haven conn james 6 hemingway new haven conn a heaton robertson new haven conn i de ver warner bridge port conn edwin milner moosup conn william skinner holyoke mass d newton barney farm ington conn robert w Taft providence r i james s elton waterbury conn thomas dewitt cuyler philadelphia pa henry k m'harg stamford conn john l billard merlden conn f f maxwell rockville conn edward milligan hartford conn t n vail boston mas s w winslow boston macs a s may bridgeport conn samuel rea philadelphia pa they are the directors of the railroad rich chicagoan wins first aeroplane bride logan a vilas betrothed to girl after air courtship new york sept 24 the first aero plane courtship was disclosed to-night by the announcement of the engagement of miss susanne wharton of plainfie.d n j to logan a vilas the wealthy chi cago polo player automobile racer and aviator i met miss wharton at a camp on alexandria bay in the thousund islands last summer said mr vilas to-night as soon as i had been introduced to her 1 said come fly with me and she did we took trips in my flying boat every day for more than a month and it was during these trips that i did my courting we are going to be the first couple to use the airboat for better and for worse " goethals to be made a major general panama canal builder's reward is decided upon washington sept 24.-advance ment to the rank of major general will be tendered colonel george w goethal3 engineer in charge of the panama canal in recognition of his services to the gov ernment both president wilson and secretary of war garrison to-day are said to believe this promotion to be more in keeping with colonel goe thals achievement than advancement to the rank of chief of engineers of the army age of consent law for boys demanded dr lydston in magazine asks pro tection of young men a demand for an age of consent law for the protection of boys is made in the october uumber of child betterment by dr g frank lydntou associate ed itor and a member of the county med ical society various states have laws establishing the age of consent writes the doctor all these laws are designed to protect the female none protects the boy 1 demand an age of eonseut law for boys still â€” you never know i.ai'ohte ind . sept ji the police believe that mrs belie uunness slayer of more than a dozen people ls still alive officers have been seut to arrest a woman suspected of being the murder ess who was supposed to have died eight years ago the theory is that the woman burned the body of another ln the house ln which her children also burned to death jk bussiere slain says widow in hunt for 150,000 bride marshals long array of suspicious circumstances to prove that husband was poi soned on all-night taxi ride insurance policies made out to wife and mother are missing as well as large fortune boy financier had amassed the strange disappearance of life insurance policies amounting to 150,000 combined with at least naif a dozen other facts almost equally mysterious and suggestive have led to a strong suspicion that bertram j bussiere late president of the wheel of fortune company was a victim of murder a number of lawyers employed b the mother and the young widow i bussiere are working on evidence in i the hope of making a case to pla | before the grand jiiroy the coroner . j inquest failed to solve the puzzle oi i the death and wie verdict was mi j open now there is new light amous ' ' the reasons making imperative a new j and more thorough investigation are | these : the disappearance of insur ance policies of which the wife and mother of the young finan cier were beneficiaries morphine in stomach the fact that 115,000 of per sonal assets which bussiere said he had could not be found after his death the fact that morphine in fatal quantity was found in his stom ach after death tho fact that just before he lay down on his deathbed he had been out all night in a taxicab for the avowed purpose of getting certain important papers from lawyers whom he mysteriously accused of withholding them wrongfully the fact that when he came home after the night chase his wife found him more than usual ly cheerful â€” that he told her he had succeeded in getting the pa pers he was after the highly significant fact that j the papers he said he had man aged to get were not found fl among his effects planned early meeting the fact that when he lay down for the last time he set his alarm clock and announced that he must attend an important i meeting at 11 o'clock â€” when he expected to get capital interested fl in the biggest business enterprise fl of his career the fact that bussiere was di vorced last february and that he jfl was married again only about two months ago m far from being satisfied with the fl indeterminate result of the eoroner'b fl inquest the mother of the young fl business man announced yesterday i that she would not rest until every i unexplained fact has been subjected fl to the broadest light of inquiry 9 i believe my son was murdered she said and the young widow fl who had been a wife only a few i weeks at the time of her husband's 1 death â€” echoed the thought i am h j convinced she said that it wa ] i murder fl | bussiere called genius jfl bussiere was in some degree afl genius ifour years ago he was afl i low-paid clerk in a department storÂ«fl and at the time of his dÂ«ath he dealt lin tens and hundreds of thousandjÃŸ 1 jof dollars he had the facultyoj making people believe in him snfl tusy*a^Â»tu mother say he waeÂ»9jfl - continued on 2d page 7th column Chicago and vicinity bhow j i\77 Â«' f lf / itti 1 1 7 â– 111 ' r_9a ' ers and colder thursday friday fair ivf nr ijsj and colder moderate winds shifting jih3 i_l__wh to northwest hj i bs3 range ot temperatures yesterday i|j koyimbi highest 81 \ jtlfv ujkji ll lowest 1 tfw ,= ii average tl l ' 'â– * \ 'â€” >. the most extraordinary human document ever written evelyn nesbit thaw's own life story here is a true narrative that will prove more surprising than any thing in fiction or the drama in it wonder ful secrets are laid bare evelyn thaw's strange and complex career provides a wealth of material for a tale of intense human interest begin ai the start the first installment appears in next sunday's examiner other big features abound the safe way to insure getting your copy is to reserve it of your newsdealer to-day examiner leads in 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Chicago examiner vol xi no 238 a ivl thursday Chicago september 25 1913 thursday registered in u s pttent office price one cent sffisf&^3ffi edison pool wins control secretly of peoples gas three electric corporation di rectors will be named on board of former rival in chi cago lighting and fuel field samuel insull gives out state ment denying merger but john j mitchell admits the consolidation of two boards control of the peoples gas light & coke company is destined to pass to the commonwealth edison company as a re sult of the negotiations now being con cluded in new yoru with the heirs of anthony n brady and d o mills at a special meeting of the peoples gas company three members of the cominon wealtb edison company will be elected to fill the places rrobably of the late anthony n brady walton ferguson and e q cowdery jehu j mitchell president of the illi nois trust ic saving bank samuel insull president of the commonwealth edison company md james a patten a silent member in the bartlett-frazier company will be the choke of the insull party at the election mr mitchell admits the possibility of this action at an early date uet salle street and wall street feel assured that the control of the peoples gas light & coke company has passed into the hands of the insull pool which began buying the shares over a year ago around 103 and continued its absorption of the issue up to 113 when monetae congestion and a steadily rising rate of discount placed a quietus jjpoijjje ojk orations when money ran up to 0 per cent and then became unavailable below 7 per cent the insull bankers called a halt rer.ew buying movement recently however the pool's brokers became active again buying the gas stock last june around 104 and taking it over on a scale even up to tuesday when sales were made on the Chicago stock exchange at 130 and on the new york stock exchange at 129.75 both high record levels ln the history of the company kussell brewster & co a l baker & co and babcock kushton & co have been the most prominently identified ou the buying side of the mar ket fiuley barrell & co and clement curtis & co also absorb3d a fair amount of stock recently while the selling was widely scattered until yesterday when the pool began to sell through its brokers with a view to checking the advance and freezing out trailers in new york ost & flagg were the pronounced sellers of gas stock yester day but the market held steadily iu spite of the flood of selling orders which led to the conclusion that most of them were matched with buying orders placed through other brokerage houses samuel insull and john j mitchell were insistent yesterday that the absorption of the peoples gas light & coke company by the commonwealth edison company was not in contempla-on insull in careful statement in new york mr insull issued a care fully worded interview in which he said there was no justification for the state ment that a merger of the two companies was contemplated he did not say how ever that the control of the gas com pany would not pass into the hands of the commonwealth edison people the organization of a massachusetts volun tary association mr insull did not deny extra bystander killed in fight between thugs and police william lorimer agent for snuff concern victim of bullet deflected by pole william lorimer 606 blackhawk street representative of the copenhagen snuff company was shot and instantly killed shortly before 3 o'clock this morning by policeman william al'.en of the hudson avenue police station during a running revolver battle with three highwaymen the fatality occurred while allen was chasing the highwaymen who hud held up and robbed adolph heimbroch 1219 otis street lorimer a bystander was in front of his office at 1440 larrabee street talking to several acquaintances one of the bullets fired at the fleeing highwaymen by the policeman struck an iron telephone post near which lorimer was standing the deflected bullet en tered his right temple lorimer wus carried to the undertaking rooms of charles burmeister & son at 1424 larrabee street he died before a physician arrived policeman allen the possessor of sev eral marksmanship medals saw the high waymen stop heimbroch at division and larrabee streets when he ran to his assistance the highwaymen fled ln larra bee street running past lorimer and his friends one of the robbers was captured at north avenue and larra'bee street by policeman frank gloy he gave his name as fred gandolinl 1157 townsend street at the hudson avenue station he was identified by heimbroch and allen plot expose near in steel trust inquiry concern to reveal facts said to be similar to u p blackmailing by b c forbes new york sert 24 1 hear that a bombshell is going to be exploded soon ly the united states steel corporation and that the reputations of certain very prominent washington men will be shat tered judge gary would not discuss it to-day he has all along taken the view as his corporation ia under prosecution his lips are sealed the disclosures it is believed will be on lines similar to those made recently in connection with the attempted black mailing of union pacific interests except that the persons implicated are of much higher stai-iing the togas of one or two statesmen it is said will be smirched jane addams in auto crashes into bank pittsburgh pa sept 24 jane addams who is here attending a socio logical conference is recovering from fright and shock of au automobile acci dent the car ln which miss addams and several friends were riding blew a tire and crashed into a hlgj bank no one was injured seriously vassar girls must eat no more butter poughkeepsie n y sept 24 butter is unhealthy cotton mattresses are unhealthy such is the finding of the investigation board at . assar college and accordingly the two articles have been banished from the college girl jailed in bank on bogus check charge expensive silks and lace and four check books revealed in search of hotel room claims to be an actress telegram from st louis says husband has been con victed of forgery a pretty yottng woman a guest at the palmer house was arrested yesterday while trying to pass a worthless check at the continental & commercial trust & savings bank a search of her room i by hugh mccaffrey superintendent of the plnkerton national detective agency revealed four check books with several checks filled out and ready to use ' she was captured because of ber re semblance to the woman who passed a check for 65 on the bank beveral days ago when she presented a check for 85 yesterday assistant cashier harry w jones called the bank detective forgery told in telfegram at the police station where she was booked on two charges of working a con fidence game she said that she is miss jesse wilcox of denver and her name so appears on the blotter but when she was taken to the palmer house for a search of her room a telegram was hand ed her which betrayed her the mes sage was from a lawyer in st louis and said that her husband had been con victed of forgery she then admitted that she is married and said that she came to Chicago to raise money for her husband's lawyer the check which was passed at the bank some days ago supposedly by the prisoner was made out ln favor of mrs r c cooper the one which she tried to pass yesterday was in favor of mrs l e rose claimed to be actress when first questioned san said that sbe is an actress and lives in omaha further questioning brought the name of miss jessie wilcox of denver but the police are sure this name is fictitious a search of the trunk in her room at the palmer house revealed expensive clothing of silk and lace but nothing in dicative of an illegal career except the check books and the hled-in checks boy 3 and girl 4 elope for whole day police find baby couple blissfully eating gift candy the police were called out to arrest a pair of elopers yesterday norton man ski 5760 indiana avenue and miss pris cil'a josephs same address disappeared in the morning and were not found until 5 o'clock in the afternoon they were found at a garage at fifty first street and michigan avenue and taken home norton is three and priscilla i four years old they had left home without a cent but had visited at least twenty candy stores and were given cakes und candy at each when found they were sitting in the garage doorway blissfully eating their supplies of sweets queen and princess out over suffrage mary won't receive patricia's franchise seeking maid special cable to the examiner london sept 24 queen mary bas again caused friction in the royal house bold by ber opposition to women's suf frage before ber visit to altborp as the gnest of lord and lady spencer queen mary learned tbat princess patri cia of counaught was also to be a guest there and the queen informed princess patricia that miss glenteil a prominent suffragist and recently appointed lady in waiting to the princess would not be acceptable to her princess patricia promptly refused to go without her friend and sent her regrets tornado in kansas snow in nebraska high wind tears down houses in its path at eureka eureka kan sept 24 a tornado passed through eureka this evening striking the residence and main part of the business district the hotel green wood and first national bank are badly damaged nearly every house in its path was unroofed many were torn down omaha neb sept 24 a snowstorm is raging in western nebraska to-night all western nebraska and eastern wyo ming ls covered with sleet and snow the rest of the state ls being soaked by the heaviest rain of the year the ground trill be prime for winter wheat assails mackay estates transfer is held illegal love suit charge denied mrs blake declares title was given trustee after service in alienation action new york sept 24 george gordon battle counsel for mrs catherine ketch am blake wife of dr joseph a blake to-night confirmed the report tbat mrs blake had taken the initial steps in a suit against mrs clarence h mackey for 1,000,000 for the alienation of dr blake's affections summons and complaint in the actiou were accepted on february 17 last by arthur c train as attorney for mrs mackay before the expiration of the required days mr train on behalf of mrs mackay filed his answer which according to mr battle was a general de nial of the charges contained in the com plaint two days after mr train had accepted service for his client mr battle said a deed was filed at mineola l 1 in the office of the clerk of nassau county in j which clarence h mackey and his wife catherine duer mackay transferred to i clarence h mackay and w w cook as | trustees harbor hill the 5,000,000 j mackay estate at ltossyln l 1 this ! transfer in the op.uion of mr battle is i illegal and will be contested ! court record kept secret mr battle admited that au agreement ] had been reached by opposing counsel not i to make any court record of the service on mrs mackay in the alienation suit i when ready to place the actual suit on file mr battle said permissiou would be 'â– obtaiued from a supreme court justice in the complaint served upon mr ! train according to mr battle there i were no charges of misconduct on the ' part of dr blake and mrs mackny ! alienation of the affections of mrs j blake's husband was the only allegation i set forth in the complaint mr battle said the papers in the suit ! would be filed in the office of the county j clerk within a few weeks or as soon as i the fall term of the supreme court con venes he also admitted that mrs blake j is contemplating the filing of a suit for , separation but that it would not be | necessary to await the outcome of the j alienation suit before taking sucn a i course he said that mrÃŸ blake tial sufficient evidence to proceed in the ae j tion for separation without depending ou the aame evidence which will be lutro | duced ln the alienation suit mrs mackay's name wiu not figure in the snit for separation if such a suit is finally brought said mr cattle frjends of dr and mrs blake have been endeavoring for some time to bring about a reconciliation but it is said thut 11 hope in this direction has practically been abandoned husband in europe clarence h mackay bas been iu europe with his three cuildreu for three months he is now supposed to be at his shoot ing lodge in scotland his departure from new york on board the imperator on june 25 last under the name of ar mour caused a decided sensation in new york society following the departure of mr mackay and his three children katherine fourteen ellen ten and john william six mrs mackay admitted that ber husband had not taken her into bis confidence hnrdly had mr mackay reached europe when the announcement came from port land me that mrs mackay had leased for three years the home of former may or i.eighton of portland she took up her resideuce in portland on july 24 last and this led to reports that she was con templating an action for separation or i divorce she however denied that she i had any such intention harbor hill the mackay estate at ros yn l 1 over which mr battle declares there wiji be a legal battle is one of the most magnificent country places on j long island through the transler of | the property last february it was prac i tically placed in entail by the terms j of the trust deed mrs mackuy relin quishes her dower rights which will go by the english system of primogeniture to the only son john w mackay now six years old so far is is known the only time mr mackay and bis wife saw each other after the filing of the deed was in the latter part of june when mrs mackay visited her husband and the children at spring lake jj j and dined with them mr mackay motored with mrs mackay to the railroad station that even ing and she returned to new york sev eral days later mr mackay and the chil dren saile'i for europe dr joseph a blake who is ten years older than mr mackay lg one of the most noted surgeons in the country since the death of dr bull he has been con sidered the most eminent surgeon in new york mrs clarence mackay and the children who were taken by her millionaire husband to europe just after the initial step in the 1,000,000 suit against mrs mackay for alienating the affections of dr j a blake u.s report blames 21 deaths on new haven directors masters of finance held respon sible for westport wreck by commissioner mcchord inves tigating for commerce board lack of discipline and safe operating rules and failure of board to act when disasters became frequent the causes washington sept 24 the inter state commerce commission to-day made public its report on the new york new hivcn & hartford railroad wreck near north haven conn on september 2 the wreck cost the lives of twenty-oue pas sengers and injured thirty-Â£ve the re port says the directors of the new haven ma gicians in the art of finance and wizards in the consolidation of great systems ot railroads were responsible for the wreck they should turn from the financial questions in which the road is involved and for a time at least give the benefit of their consideration and judgment to the question of safety it is not to be wondered at that the accident occurred it is rcmarknb'e tfl that accidents of this character have not occurred on the line with greater fre quency as a result of its investigation the in terstate commerce commission will rec ommend to congress in its coming report laws making railroad directors criminally responsible for neglect of duty the report was written by commission er mcchord he complains that con gress has not given the interstate com merce commission the power to enforce its recommendations and he urges con gress to exercise its full authority u s power to act the report makes these points in addi tion to those listed before the government has the power to com pel the safeguarding of traffic over this line if the railroad will not do it the direct cause of the wreck was the failure of the train crews to obey the rules the rules are ineffective the officials made no effort to enforce the rules the discipline on the road is weak the signals are antiquated the man failure begins higher up the operating officials cannot evade re sponsibilities for infractions of the rules in thirty-two mouths the new haven bad 156 cases of euglnemen disregarding danger signals and 101 cases of improper flagging attention is called to the delay by the directors in taking steps to end the dis asters the directors do not seem to have acted upon the subject until october it 1912 which was after the westport wreck which followed that at bridge port on july 1 1911 order president to inquire they then ordered the president of the road to investigate the competency of the locomotive engineers and proposed to improve the safety of passenger travel the directors assumed to dispose of their responsibility on this subject by a vote depositing it in bulk upon the pres ident it is not necessary here to attempt to , outline the technical rule of law govern ing the obligation of directors as usteos | of the corporation for the aggregate body of their stocklio'ders and for the pub lic suffice it to say that there can he little doubt that this legal obligation is more stroug that seems to be the gencr , ally accepted bejief of men of large for , tune who occupy mauy positions of this character the rule is that where a corporation , is handling agencies dangerous to life its directors are required to exercise such reasonable supervision over the manage ment of their company's business as will result in the observance of the utmost care on the part of the subordinates directors by law are not mere figure beads iior arc their duties confined to the more direction of the finances of a corporation their duties are such that 1 1 mere delegation of them if such they nre ' not in fact performed does not satisfy - the legal obligation unless there bas , been ordinary business eare aad diligence in supervision _________ here are the financiers blamed for rail horror washington sept 24 here are the men magicians in the art of finance and wizards in con struction operation and consoli dation of great returns of rail roads held responsible by the interstate commerce commission for the new haven road wreck that cost twenty-one lives william rockefeller now york n y j pierpont morgan new york n y george mag culloch mil ler new york n y lewis cass ledyard new york n y charles m pratt new york n y george f baker new york n y alexander cochrane bos ton mass charles f brooker anso nia conn charles s mellen new haven conn james 6 hemingway new haven conn a heaton robertson new haven conn i de ver warner bridge port conn edwin milner moosup conn william skinner holyoke mass d newton barney farm ington conn robert w Taft providence r i james s elton waterbury conn thomas dewitt cuyler philadelphia pa henry k m'harg stamford conn john l billard merlden conn f f maxwell rockville conn edward milligan hartford conn t n vail boston mas s w winslow boston macs a s may bridgeport conn samuel rea philadelphia pa they are the directors of the railroad rich chicagoan wins first aeroplane bride logan a vilas betrothed to girl after air courtship new york sept 24 the first aero plane courtship was disclosed to-night by the announcement of the engagement of miss susanne wharton of plainfie.d n j to logan a vilas the wealthy chi cago polo player automobile racer and aviator i met miss wharton at a camp on alexandria bay in the thousund islands last summer said mr vilas to-night as soon as i had been introduced to her 1 said come fly with me and she did we took trips in my flying boat every day for more than a month and it was during these trips that i did my courting we are going to be the first couple to use the airboat for better and for worse " goethals to be made a major general panama canal builder's reward is decided upon washington sept 24.-advance ment to the rank of major general will be tendered colonel george w goethal3 engineer in charge of the panama canal in recognition of his services to the gov ernment both president wilson and secretary of war garrison to-day are said to believe this promotion to be more in keeping with colonel goe thals achievement than advancement to the rank of chief of engineers of the army age of consent law for boys demanded dr lydston in magazine asks pro tection of young men a demand for an age of consent law for the protection of boys is made in the october uumber of child betterment by dr g frank lydntou associate ed itor and a member of the county med ical society various states have laws establishing the age of consent writes the doctor all these laws are designed to protect the female none protects the boy 1 demand an age of eonseut law for boys still â€” you never know i.ai'ohte ind . sept ji the police believe that mrs belie uunness slayer of more than a dozen people ls still alive officers have been seut to arrest a woman suspected of being the murder ess who was supposed to have died eight years ago the theory is that the woman burned the body of another ln the house ln which her children also burned to death jk bussiere slain says widow in hunt for 150,000 bride marshals long array of suspicious circumstances to prove that husband was poi soned on all-night taxi ride insurance policies made out to wife and mother are missing as well as large fortune boy financier had amassed the strange disappearance of life insurance policies amounting to 150,000 combined with at least naif a dozen other facts almost equally mysterious and suggestive have led to a strong suspicion that bertram j bussiere late president of the wheel of fortune company was a victim of murder a number of lawyers employed b the mother and the young widow i bussiere are working on evidence in i the hope of making a case to pla | before the grand jiiroy the coroner . j inquest failed to solve the puzzle oi i the death and wie verdict was mi j open now there is new light amous ' ' the reasons making imperative a new j and more thorough investigation are | these : the disappearance of insur ance policies of which the wife and mother of the young finan cier were beneficiaries morphine in stomach the fact that 115,000 of per sonal assets which bussiere said he had could not be found after his death the fact that morphine in fatal quantity was found in his stom ach after death tho fact that just before he lay down on his deathbed he had been out all night in a taxicab for the avowed purpose of getting certain important papers from lawyers whom he mysteriously accused of withholding them wrongfully the fact that when he came home after the night chase his wife found him more than usual ly cheerful â€” that he told her he had succeeded in getting the pa pers he was after the highly significant fact that j the papers he said he had man aged to get were not found fl among his effects planned early meeting the fact that when he lay down for the last time he set his alarm clock and announced that he must attend an important i meeting at 11 o'clock â€” when he expected to get capital interested fl in the biggest business enterprise fl of his career the fact that bussiere was di vorced last february and that he jfl was married again only about two months ago m far from being satisfied with the fl indeterminate result of the eoroner'b fl inquest the mother of the young fl business man announced yesterday i that she would not rest until every i unexplained fact has been subjected fl to the broadest light of inquiry 9 i believe my son was murdered she said and the young widow fl who had been a wife only a few i weeks at the time of her husband's 1 death â€” echoed the thought i am h j convinced she said that it wa ] i murder fl | bussiere called genius jfl bussiere was in some degree afl genius ifour years ago he was afl i low-paid clerk in a department storÂ«fl and at the time of his dÂ«ath he dealt lin tens and hundreds of thousandjÃŸ 1 jof dollars he had the facultyoj making people believe in him snfl tusy*a^Â»tu mother say he waeÂ»9jfl - continued on 2d page 7th column Chicago and vicinity bhow j i\77 Â«' f lf / itti 1 1 7 â– 111 ' r_9a ' ers and colder thursday friday fair ivf nr ijsj and colder moderate winds shifting jih3 i_l__wh to northwest hj i bs3 range ot temperatures yesterday i|j koyimbi highest 81 \ jtlfv ujkji ll lowest 1 tfw ,= ii average tl l ' 'â– * \ 'â€” >. the most extraordinary human document ever written evelyn nesbit thaw's own life story here is a true narrative that will prove more surprising than any thing in fiction or the drama in it wonder ful secrets are laid bare evelyn thaw's strange and complex career provides a wealth of material for a tale of intense human interest begin ai the start the first installment appears in next sunday's examiner other big features abound the safe way to insure getting your copy is to reserve it of your newsdealer to-day examiner leads in 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